Diversity at Techstars Companies

As a follow up to our White House diversity commitment and on the heels of the creation of the Techstars Foundation, a nonprofit with the goal of advancing opportunities for underrepresented tech entrepreneurs, we are now reporting on our progress and publishing our own diversity data related to the founders of our accelerator companies.

Below is our diversity data related to founders of companies we’ve funded in the accelerators to date. Based on these figures, we certainly have a long way to go here at Techstars — but we also know that you cannot improve what you don’t measure. We will publish this information annually, along with notes on our progress. While we don’t have this data historically, we will be focusing on broader classifications in the future.

David Cohen(@davidcohen) Founder & Co-CEO of Techstars, previously founder of several technology companies. David is an active startup advocate, advisor, board member, and technology advisor who comments on these topics on his blog at DavidGCohen.com

Do you have an outreach program to help encourage potential minority/women co-founders? The resistance I hear is not to the business or idea, it’s to the lifestyle and changes.
If you could create private messaging direct to these potential co-founders from other minority/women, then maybe they will believe the risk is worth it.